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"Don't try to bribe me," said Jamieson, with a gesture of disgust. "It's no use. I win, as you say. There may be a next time but I'm not afraid of you, Holmes. Take me up there right now." "Oh, all right," said Holmes. And three minutes later Zara was in Bessie's arms, while Holmes looked on, sneering. "I'll not deny that you did a pretty clever job here," he said.
Mrs Jamieson stood up, giving us each a torpid smile of welcome, and looking helplessly beyond us at Mr Mulliner, as if she hoped he would place us in chairs, for, if he did not, she never could. I suppose he thought we could find our way to the circle round the fire, which reminded me of Stonehenge, I don't know why.
They said Jesse Jamieson, in the 'Skylark, had a visiting pilot with him one trip a poor old broken-down, superannuated fellow left him at the wheel, at the foot of 63, to run off the watch.
Jamieson can't figure on what they're going to do next, or how to beat them at their own game, simply because he doesn't know what their game is. They know just what they want to do, while we haven't any idea, except that they're anxious to have Zara and myself back where Farmer Weeks can do as he likes with us."
Get your crippled men off the boat at once, Jamieson. This couple of prisoners I am going to take home with me. The rest can go. "But there's one thing we've forgotten where's that girl?" He turned to the northern leader. "She's below, in the cabin." "Go get her, Clayton," commanded Dunwody. "We'll have to be quick now."
"I wonder how long this sort of thing is going to keep up," said Margery Burton, angrily. "Until you two girls are twenty-one?" "I hope not," laughed Bessie, and then she went on, more seriously, "I really do think that if Jake Hoover sticks to what he said, and takes our side, Mr. Jamieson is likely to find out something that will give him a chance to settle matters.
Jamieson, I have reason for believing that he is in danger, but I don't know what it is. Only he must be found." The stocky man had said nothing. Now, however, he went quickly toward the door. "I'll catch the hack down the road and hold it," he said. "Is the gentleman down in the town?" "Mr. Jamieson," Louise said impulsively, "I can use the hack. Take my horse and trap outside and drive like mad.
"But you do me wrong, in deeming me the cause of his apprehension. It is Jamieson and Thetford's work, and they have not proceeded on shadowy surmises and the impulses of mere revenge. Facts have come to light of which you are wholly unaware, and which, when known to you, will conquer even your incredulity as to the guilt of Mervyn." "Facts? Let me know them, I beseech you.
A little after nine a dispatch came, stating that the quarrymen near Central Park had quitted work, and were gathering in excited groups, swearing that the Orangemen should not parade. Immediately Inspector Jamieson, with two hundred and fifty policemen, was despatched in stages to Forty-seventh Street and Eighth Avenue, to watch the course of events.
Mrs Jamieson dines at five, but has kindly promised not to delay her visit beyond that time half-past six." And with a swimming curtsey Miss Betty Barker took her leave. My prophetic soul foretold a visit that afternoon from Miss Pole, who usually came to call on Miss Matilda after any event or indeed in sight of any event to talk it over with her.
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